News

Learning and update event for carers and families of people with a learning disability in Kingston and Richmond

A learning and update event for carers and families of people with a learning disability living in Kingston and Richmond is to be held on Tuesday 30th July between 10am and 2pm at the Kingston Hospital education centre. The event …
28th May 2019

School Games Gold Award Mark – 2018/2019

We are delighted to announce that Dysart has been awarded the School Games Gold Award Mark for the second year running.   Across the school we have made a continuous and meaningful effort to promote pupils’ physical activity and health …
22nd May 2019

Dysart Pupils Star at Film Festival!

On Tuesday 21st May, a small group of pupils from Dysart attended the OHCAT (Orchard Hill College Academy Trust) annual film festival in Sutton. The event is organised by OHCAT’s Digital School who have been working with some of our …
21st May 2019

A passport to clearer communication for our pupils…

At the start of this year, Dysart School was one of two special schools selected to participate in a research trial conducted by King’s College London. Throughout the autumn term, staff from KCL worked with pupils, families and staff at …
15th May 2019

Dysart’s ‘The Greatest Show’

It was great to see so many families and friends come to Tolworth Girls school this afternoon to watch the performance of Dysart’s ‘The Greatest Show’. Pupils and staff spent a lot of time rehearsing, ensuring that the show was …
1st May 2019

‘Talk and Choose’

Jonathan (Gold class teacher) has developed an exciting new app called Talk and Choose with an accompanying website — www.talkandchoose.co.uk — which allows for a mobile platform for all of the symbols etc that we use with pupils. If you …
29th April 2019

Proposal to expand overall pupil numbers at Dysart School

Dysart School is undertaking a consultation on a proposal for the School to educate additional children with special education needs across the existing year groups at its current site and at a proposed additional site. The overall increase across both sites would provide a further …
23rd April 2019

Autism Awareness Week at Dysart

Pupils and staff at Dysart have celebrated Autism Awareness Week this week, participating in a range of different activities to promote better understanding and acceptance of autism. We adopted the ‘Light it up blue’ theme, where many landmarks, businesses and …
5th April 2019

Work Experience at Dysart

We were delighted to welcome Zav, a pupil from St Philip’s school in Chessington, for a week of Work Experience at Dysart last week. Zav worked in our front office and helped the admin team with a number of important …
31st March 2019

Dysart Pupils Celebrate National Workouts & Wellbeing Week

On Monday March 25th, pupils at Dysart celebrated National Workouts and Wellbeing week. Pupils from a number of our younger classes came together to paint two large, communal, pieces of artwork. All the pupils worked together to produce two brilliantly …
26th March 2019

Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week 2019

18th-24th March is Down’s Syndrome Awareness week 2019. Tatty Bowman, mum of George a student at Dysart, has written a wonderful piece from the perspective of her son with Down’s Syndrome. If you have a spare moment please click on …
18th March 2019

Wellbeing Award for Schools

As was mentioned in the newsletter last month, Dysart School is starting the process of working towards the Wellbeing Award for Schools mark. This whole-school award focuses on ensuring effective practice and provision is in place which promotes the emotional …
13th March 2019